Damien Cahill

Bio: Damien Cahill is an academic researcher from University of Sydney. The author has contributed to research in topics: Neoliberalism & Capitalism. The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 47 publications receiving 805 citations. Previous affiliations of Damien Cahill include University of Wollongong.

The End of Laissez-Faire?: On the Durability of Embedded Neoliberalism

Abstract: Contents: Introduction 1. The Idealist View of Neoliberalism 2. Actually Existing Neoliberalism 3. Did Neoliberal Ideas Create the Neoliberal State and Economy? 4. Always Embedded Neoliberalism 5. The Class Embedded Nature of Neoliberalism 6. Institutionally Embedded Neoliberalism 7. Ideologically Embedded Neoliberalism 8. The Global Financial Crisis and the Future of Embedded Neoliberalism Bibliography Index

‘actually existing neoliberalism’ and the global economic crisis

Abstract: This article assesses claims that the global economic crisis heralds the end of neoliberalism as the dominant logic of policy-making. It does so by examining three major competing conceptions of neoliberalism—‘neoliberalism as laissez faire’; ‘regulatory capitalism’; and ‘actually existing neoliberalism’—and uses these to identify the core components of the neoliberal shift in state-economy relations. The article then assesses the extent to which the core components of neoliberalism have been eroded in the wake of the global economic crisis, with a specific focus upon Australia, in particular the sphere of industrial relations.

Beyond Neoliberalism? Crisis and the Prospects for Progressive Alternatives

Abstract: The onset of the current global economic crisis was hailed by many as signalling the demise of neoliberal hegemony. Two years on however, neoliberalism appears to be quite durable. Indeed, after a brief period of Keynesian-type responses, states, on the whole, have embraced neoliberal solutions to the fiscal problems generated by the crisis. Greece, for example, is now following an IMF programme of privatisation and cuts to social expenditure, while other European nations are pursuing austerity policies. In the USA, state and municipal governments are selling off public assets in response to mounting deficits. This paper explains the durability of neoliberalism and the opportunities and challenges it creates for non-neoliberal progressive policy agendas. Drawing upon Karl Polanyi's conceptual framework, this paper argues that neoliberalism is best understood as a historically specific process of state and economic restructuring that is socially embedded through three mechanisms: ideological norms, class r...

The archaeology of knowledge

Abstract: We may not be able to make you love reading, but archaeology of knowledge will lead you to love reading starting from now. Book is the window to open the new world. The world that you want is in the better stage and level. World will always guide you to even the prestige stage of the life. You know, this is some of how reading will give you the kindness. In this case, more books you read more knowledge you know, but it can mean also the bore is full.

Two Treatises of Government.

Abstract: All these premises having, as I think, been clearly made out, it is impossible that the rulers now on earth should make any benefit, or derive any the least shadow of authority from that, which is held to be the fountain of all power, Adam's private dominion and paternal jurisdiction; so that he that will not give just occasion to think that all government in the world is the product only of force and violence, and that men live together by no other rules but that of beasts, where the strongest carries it, and so lay a foundation for perpetual disorder and mischief, tumult, sedition and rebellion, (things that the followers of that hypothesis so loudly cry out against) must of necessity find out another rise of government, another original of political power, and another way of designing and knowing the persons that have it, than what Sir Robert Filmer hath taught us.

The Future of the Capitalist State.

Abstract: List of Boxes. List of Tables and Figure. Preface. Abbreviations. Introduction. 1. Capitalism and the Capitalist Type of State. 2. The Keynesian Welfare National State. 3. The Schumpeterian Competition State. 4. Social Reproduction and the Workfare State. 5. The Political Economy of State Rescaling. 6. From Mixed Economy to Metagovernance. 7. Towards Schumpeterian Workfare Postnational Regimes?. Notes. References. Index.